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Centennial Arts’ Magento Customization Features vs. Shopify Customization Features

Centennial Arts provides Magento eCommerce design, hosting and support services. Magento is a resourceful eCommerce platform that offers a variety of features to create, form and manage online shopping stores. While Shopify has numerous customization features, let us explain why Magento is your go-to eCommerce when it comes to customization.

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Magento: Performance and Speed

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There are numerous ways to ensure your customers have a good onsite experience, and one of the most talked-about factors recently is Magento performance—the speed at which your eCommerce site loads. Studies have shown that slow page load times lead to increased abandonment rates, fewer product views and poor user experience. There are many benefits of Magento’s performance and speed when compared to other eCommerce sites such as Shopify.

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How to Setup an Online Store for Apparel on Magento with Centennial Arts

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When starting an online apparel store on Magento, it’s easy to become overwhelmed in procuring or manufacturing great products to sell. However, without a thoroughly thought out online store, you won’t have the ability to sell your products effectively to your target audience. This article will outline a few key considerations and tips for anyone about to start a online store using Magento.

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Storing Credit Cards with PCI Compliance on Magento with Centennial Arts

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Centennial Arts frequently gets asked the question of whether you can store credit card information within Magento. Unfortunately, the answer is not very clear when looking for an answer elsewhere including on the Magento website. To clarify the answer to this question, there are some things that need to be understood, such as why PCI Compliance is so important.

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How to Prepare Your Magento eCommerce Store for the Holiday Season

Is your Magento eCommerce store ready to handle peak loads this holiday season? Are you positive it won’t crumble during the busiest online shopping days of the year? Always be aware of possible instances of slow performances or server going down. We will discus how to prepare your Magento eCommerce store for the holiday season to ensure it will handle high loads quickly and efficiently.

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Shopify vs. Magento: What’s the Difference?

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Choice of eCommerce platform is essential to your online store’s success. It’s what allows you to scale your operations and grow. There’s a popular debate on whether Shopify vs. Magento is right for successful online stores. We will discuss the differences between Shopify vs. Magento to help you with this decision.

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Benefits of Magento for Your eCommerce Business

Magento is an open-source eCommerce platform for businesses. It contains built in customization to many of the top payment providers, as well as numerous pre-built shipping to choose from. Therefore, you can begin selling products online with little hassle. Here are just a few of the many benefits of Magento for your eCommerce business store.

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Tips for Speed Optimization of Magento

One of the most difficult things to accomplish with a Magento site is to make it load faster. You find that it will take 3-4 seconds for a standard category page to load due to the complex nature of how the Magento system works, even if you have a low graphics home page theme. If you choose to load your theme up with heavy graphics usage, the load time can even increase up to 5-10 seconds. Here are a few helpful tips we recommend to help speed optimization of Magento for your online store.

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MailChimp Integration with Magento

Integrating Mailchip with Magento is great for those looking to segment, personalize and automate by purchase history. This article will discuss some of the many features this integration provides.

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